Novae 2011. „Principia et Munitiones Castrorum”. Headquarters building and legionary defences

Abstrakt

Excavations of 2011 werecarried out in thecentral part of thesite within the headquarters building (principia) and along the northern and eastern defensive walls of the fortress of the Roman legions viii augusta (ca. Ad 45–69) and i italica (early 70s Ad – 2nd quarter of the 4th c. Ad). Geodetic measurements allowed to complete a digital terrain model of the whole archaeological site of the legionary fortress and of its surroundings (Fig. 1). A team from “Wod.o.Lot,” a student research organisation in the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw, took aseries of balloon aerial photographs of thelargearea, once occupied not only by the Roman legionary base and a Late Roman annex to the east of the fortress but also in the first centuries Ad by an extramural settlement (canabae). The same group of students 1 also madea photogrammetry of the western wall of the crosshall in the headquarters building.